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Community Care (Delayed Discharges Etc.) Bill

EDM number 293 in 2002-03, proposed by Paul Burstow on 05/12/2002.

That this House believes that the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill proposed simplistic measures that fail to address adequately a complex problem; further believes that the Bill treats a symptom rather than tackling the cause, which is a failure of successive governments to invest in community-based services to prevent admissions and support people after discharge; regrets that the Bill will undermine partnerships between health and social care; deplores the Bill's failure to take note of the needs of the patient or the concerns of the carers; believes it will give rise to an increase in emergency readmissions of older people; notes with concern that the Bill will distort priorities for the care of the elderly and create perverse incentives by placing the need to hit delayed discharge targets ahead of offering timely and appropriate care to those in their own homes; and calls on the Government to abandon the Bill.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Burstow05/12/2002Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratProposed
Martin Smyth09/12/2002Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Vincent Cable09/12/2002TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock09/12/2002Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes10/12/2002ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Marsden10/12/2002Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George10/12/2002St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones11/12/2002Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Tyler12/12/2002North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross12/12/2002TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd12/12/2002Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Nick Harvey16/12/2002North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Sue Doughty16/12/2002GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed17/12/2002South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Patsy Calton17/12/2002CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett18/12/2002Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones13/01/2003CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley20/01/2003RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell28/01/2003Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned

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